New WhaleMap Features
WhaleMap has a few new features that hopefully make it more useful and reliable. Most of these upgrades began as requests submitted via the GitHub issue page or emailed to Hansen directly (hansen.johnson@dal.ca). Each one helps make the system better, so please keep it up!
Choose from different basemaps
Click on the Colors tab on the Editor pane, then use the Choose basemap: dropdown menu to select the background you would like. Remember to click Go in the bottom left to plot the new map.
ESRI Ocean
OpenStreetMap
ESRI Imagery
Grey
Color track lines by variable
Click on the Colors tab on the Editor pane, then use the Color tracks by dropdown to select the variable you would like to colorcode. Then use the Choose color palette dropdown to pick a set of colors you would like.
Pro tip - If it starts looking messy, try switching to a different basemap (Grey often works well)
You can get creative and color tracks and detections by different variables
Select date range
Click the Data tab on the Editor pane, then click the Date range button underneath the Choose date(s). This should bring up two date fields. You can type in the date range you like (using YYYY-MM-DD format), or select them using the popup calendar widgets.
Select platform by name
Use the Choose platform name(s) to select specific platforms, such as a specific plane or vessel, you would like to display. The choices that appear are based on the date range selected above. Make sure you remove the All option to only show specific platforms
Interactive management layers
Canadian management is more extensive this year. Switch to the Layers tab and scroll down to Canadian Management section to turn specific layers on and off. Note that some of them (e.g., Fishing grid) are clickable so you can extract information about a particular layer.
